TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE ON TEXTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
There has long been a tendency to regard Thomas Hardy as a great tragic writer and to ignore or underestimate the value of his comic works. This derives no doubt partly from the fact that comedy as an art form has been consistently undervalued ever since
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-257) and index
